Satellite Sent By India To Mars

This morning at 09 08 gmt indian space research organisation isro successfully launched the mars orbiter mission also known as mangalyaan the country s first spacecraft destined for mars.

Satellite sent by india to mars.

Launched in 2013 the mars orbiter mission mom also called. Like many services performed out of india antrix s launches have competed on price and quiet reliability. Only the us russia and europe have previously sent missions to mars. It is india s first interplanetary mission and it made it the fourth space agency to reach mars.

India has become the first nation to send a satellite into orbit around mars on its first attempt and the first asian nation to do so. Missions sent to the martian system have returned data on phobos and deimos and missions specifically dedicated to the moons are a subset of missions mars that often include dedicated goals to acquire data about these moons. The mars orbiter mission mom also called mangalyaan mars craft from sanskrit. See photos from the mission s preparation here.

The mangalyaan satellite was confirmed to be in orbit shortly after. India s space programme has succeeded at the first attempt where others have failed by sending an operational mission to mars. India s chandrayaan 2 mission is just the beginning of ambitious plans to launch the first gaganauts into earth orbit followed by missions to launch balloons at venus and land on mars. Mission control in the southern indian city of bangalore.

India s orbiter spacecraft captures its first image of mars. India s first mission to the red planet called the mars orbiter mission is slated to launch from satish dhawan space center on oct. An example of this is the imaging campaigns by mars express of the mars moons.